Global Collaboration Meets Seamless Integration

SEEBURGER’s B2B Gateway is the most comprehensive and cost-effective business integration platform in the industry. Designed to cut administrative costs and accelerate business processes by automating trading relationships throughout the supply chain, it is the only middleware solution capable of integrating 100% of an organization’s applications and trading partners --- including smaller customers and suppliers that still do business on paper.  Over 7,000 customers in 42 countries utilize SEEBURGER’s business integration solutions.

Business-to-business integration is vital to ensure the efficient, accurate and timely flow of information across internal data systems and external trading partners, but most B2B gateways are limited to handling only EDI or XML data. This ignores smaller trading partners that have not migrated to these technologies, forcing document exchange to be handled manually and thereby increasing operational costs. SEEBURGER’s B2B Gateway bridges this gap while also accommodating all industry and regional-specific data standards and communications protocols, providing a single, easy-to-maintain solution that uniquely spans the entire supply chain.  

• 100% trading partner integration, with special solutions that automate document exchange via e-mail, Web portal and even paper in order to extend connectivity to smaller trading partners that are not electronically enabled. 
• Automated processing of paper transactions, including faxed documents, through a combination of OCR, artificial intelligence and data validation/exception handling that dramatically reduce manual data entry.
• One-platform architecture, with all components and adapters developed in-house by SEEBURGER to ensure compatibility, provide a common work environment, and simplify maintenance across the extended supply chain.  
• Rapid deployment, typically two to three times faster than other solutions, via thousands of reusable industry-specific processes and templates, an extensive library of adapters, and a rapid implementation process. 
• Reduced integration costs, achieved through a broad range of processes and components preconfigured for different industries and B2B/EDI standards, resulting in a faster return on investment.
• Modular implementation options, including the ability to deploy point solutions for Paper-to-ERP conversions or RFID data management, or implement a new protocol, without a full-blown application integration project.
• Extensive installed base and ERP vendor relationships, including the distinction of being the only B2B/EDI provider resold by SAP, Peoplesoft, and SSA Global.

• Configuration console providing one view to establish and administer integration scenarios and trading partner relationships
• Adapters and connectors for seamless integration of applications, databases, marketplaces and/or portals.
• Conversion engine, a drag-and-drop tool for mapping any-to-any message conversions and creating rules for message standards and relationships.
• Communication gateways for establishing connections to external business partners, providing transport and transmitting required acknowledgements.
• Business process & workflow designer for defining, modifying and running rules-based business integration processes.
• Monitoring tools that track business integration processes, flag problems requiring user intervention, and facilitate document searches. 
• RFID Gateway, an optional tool for managing RFID data, tags and hardware and integrating data into core systems.

• Paper-to-ERP, enabling faxes and other paper documents to be processed electronically to reduce the time and error risks of manual data entry.
• XMLMail, offering two-way interactive e-mail integration that automatically converts pre-configured populated forms sent by e-mail into XML documents.
• WebForms/Portal, permitting electronic data exchange via Web browser with automatic generation of shipping notices, bar codes and other documents.
• Hub & Spoke, a centrally managed add-on component installed by smaller partners that integrates with the SEEBURGER B2B Gateway as well as the supplier’s back-end application for seamless collaboration.  

• Reduced handling costs, achieved through end-to-end electronic transaction processing that eliminates manual data entry even for smaller partners.
• Reduced inventory levels, with associated cash flow benefits, produced by the availability of up-to-the-minute information along the value chain.
• Faster transaction processing, resulting from automation of all processes and the elimination of bottlenecks associated with manual data entry.
• Shorter lead times and faster time to market, made possible by the accelerated availability of information to all members of the supply chain.
• Reduced IT maintenance expense, provided by a simpler infrastructure that eliminates point-to-point connections and multiple integration technologies.
  

SEEBURGER’s business integration solutions have been adopted by thousands of customers around the globe, including automotive OEMs and their suppliers as well as enterprises in the aerospace/defense, chemical, consumer packaged goods/ retail, energy/utilities, finance, insurance, manufacturing, paper, pharmaceutical/healthcare, and high-tech/telecommunications industries. U.S. clients range from Hyundai to Whirlpool, Chevron Philips Chemical, Bosch-Siemens, C&H Sugar and Goodyear. 

SEEBURGER is a provider of advanced business integration solutions and services to more than 7,000 companies in 42 countries. Launched in 1986 to provide trading partner enablement solutions to the automotive industry, the company today serves more than 15 industries through its flagship B2B Gateway and related products.

SEEBURGER, Inc.
1230 Peachtree Street NE           
Suite 1020
Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
Phone: 770 604 3888
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info(at)seeburger.com

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